Chapter 476

Into the Forest Depths(3)

After a short breather, we called it quits for the day and dispersed.

Rir returned to the forest, while Enne and I relaxed in the bath and reported the day’s events to Lefi.

“Well...it looks like you ran away from something, but I’m glad to see that you made it back without injuries.”

“Ah... We were easily found by that thing. It had a ridiculous detection range, attack range, and offensive capabilities. For the first time in a long time, I thought I was going to die.”

Enne chimed in too, “...It shot a beam at us, a beam. It was cool.”

I couldn’t help but reply to her, “That beam was definitely cool, but I felt like I would have been vaporized if it hit me.”

“Hmm, what did you run into?”

“A golem. There are some ruins deep in the west area, Lefi, do you know anything about them?”

“...Ruins?”

“Yes, ruins. They were so weathered by the years that it was hard to tell what they were anymore.”

Seriously, it was practically swallowed by nature.

Barely retaining any artifact-like form, that was.

Then Lefi put her hand to her chin and started thinking.

“...I didn’t know there was such a thing in that forest. All I know is that the forest had been a magic forest since long before we were born. I did mention to you before about [The place where God died], though that is the most that I have known.”

Come to think of it, we talked about that a long time ago.

About the Demon Forest being the place where a God had perished.

“Well, when I think about it, there is a point that I am a little concerned about. Why would a forest name be handed down by our elders, even though the place had no real importance with our race?”

“...Yes. Certainly from an Ancient Dragon’s point of view, monsters in the Demon Forest are just a little stronger than those outside it, and it would not have mattered.”

As expected of the most powerful race.

And my wife was the strongest among them.

Hmmm, that’s nice.

Also, it made me want to cry a little because I wasted a gorgeous amount of DP.

I had spent a lot of DPs to prepare a number of them so that I could precisely determine the attack range and performance of the golem, but I didn’t expect for all that I had summoned to be erased, which wasted a lot of my DP.

Maybe I wouldn’t be able to use any more DP this month....

Oh, due to the fact that the adult members of our family could use some of the functions related to the dungeon, DP was currently treated as pocket money and the amount available was fixed.

Of course, I had a much larger amount of DP at my disposal than the other members of the adult group, and I was allowed to spend as much as I really needed to...but when I wasted a good amount of DP in the past, they got mad at me, and this was the result.

A Demon Lord with an allowance system.

Very undignified.

–I’m not going to let my DP go to waste.

I had learned something from that simultaneous assault.

The order in which my army of golems was destroyed was not in the order of those who approached first.

They were destroyed in the order of what the golem noticed first.

Those that were hidden by trees and grass and could not be seen were attacked later, even if they were close by.

In other words, there was a high probability that the enemy was detecting targets visually.

“...Okay, I’ve decided. Tunnel tactics.”

“Kuu?”

[...Are we digging holes?]

“Yeah. Let’s dig a hole to his feet, prepare all the bombs and traps we can find, and drop him.”

Normally, it would take tremendous effort for one person, one animal, and a sword to dig a hole, but I had the power of the dungeon’s terrain manipulation.

After several days of exploration, I had already incorporated this area as my dungeon area, so I could alter it at will.

Hahaha, I finally made it to the west area!

...Oh, I would have to explain to my wives later how I used the DP and that I didn’t waste it.

They’ve been bonding a lot lately, or rather, colluding with each other so much that it’s making me feel twice as helpless.